Group 3
What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated?
This topic is very fascinating to me. What does it really mean to be educated? I would consider myself educated, but when I see my younger brother working on history homework, I feel as if I forget everything I once knew about that topic. Is this important? Why do we really even learn history, since most of us just forget it in a couple years? Or are we supposed to remember it forever, and it’s just a lack of my intelligence to be able to? I should learn more about this. The text talks about trying to define what it really means to be well-educated. A good point is made that even if some people come to a conclusion, that doesn’t mean that should be imposed as a law that all students have to meet the set requirements. He suggests that we should leave graduation requirements up to local communities. However, I do not agree with this. If there are not the same set of requirements across the country, there would be so many different levels of education, and if you went to another state, you could either be way ahead of students your age, or way behind. And I don’t think a system like this would work. There must be uniformity throughout a country.
Howard Gardner intro 1
It was most interesting to me to see that there was a group of psychologists that didn’t agree with the IQ test because there isn’t enough theory behind it. Howard Gardner came up with the idea of multiple intelligences. I like this idea because it includes different things that people are good at, such as music, and uses that rather than the old IQ test. Old theory wants to rank all humans based on one test that makes intelligence just one thing. However, I agree with Howard Gardner when he says that there are different kinds of intelligence and you can be good at some and not as good at others. “What we usually call smart, is a conjunction of language and logic, but it doesn’t say anything about musical ability, spatial ability, capacity to solve problems using your hands or body, about understanding other people…” and he goes on with this. This is a very solid point, and I think everybody who is not considered “smart” at school work has a lot at stake with this new idea. Even if you’re not “smart” at one thing, there are these other faculties you’re probably good at. To me this means that we need to start to change our view of “smart” to a bigger variety of intelligences and talents.
What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated?
This topic is very fascinating to me. What does it really mean to be educated? I would consider myself educated, but when I see my younger brother working on history homework, I feel as if I forget everything I once knew about that topic. Is this important? Why do we really even learn history, since most of us just forget it in a couple years? Or are we supposed to remember it forever, and it’s just a lack of my intelligence to be able to? I should learn more about this. The text talks about trying to define what it really means to be well-educated. A good point is made that even if some people come to a conclusion, that doesn’t mean that should be imposed as a law that all students have to meet the set requirements. He suggests that we should leave graduation requirements up to local communities. However, I do not agree with this. If there are not the same set of requirements across the country, there would be so many different levels of education, and if you went to another state, you could either be way ahead of students your age, or way behind. And I don’t think a system like this would work. There must be uniformity throughout a country.
Howard Gardner intro 1
It was most interesting to me to see that there was a group of psychologists that didn’t agree with the IQ test because there isn’t enough theory behind it. Howard Gardner came up with the idea of multiple intelligences. I like this idea because it includes different things that people are good at, such as music, and uses that rather than the old IQ test. Old theory wants to rank all humans based on one test that makes intelligence just one thing. However, I agree with Howard Gardner when he says that there are different kinds of intelligence and you can be good at some and not as good at others. “What we usually call smart, is a conjunction of language and logic, but it doesn’t say anything about musical ability, spatial ability, capacity to solve problems using your hands or body, about understanding other people…” and he goes on with this. This is a very solid point, and I think everybody who is not considered “smart” at school work has a lot at stake with this new idea. Even if you’re not “smart” at one thing, there are these other faculties you’re probably good at. To me this means that we need to start to change our view of “smart” to a bigger variety of intelligences and talents.